Top 10% Deceased Economists, as of April 2025

The rankings

The top 5% are ranked, the next 5% are listed alphabetically in 1% buckets.

1071 deceased authors have so far been identified, about 1.4% of all authors.

Rank	Author	Score
1	Alberto Francesco Alesina †	3.1
2	Gary S. Becker †	3.38
3	Robert E. Lucas Jr.†	4.36
4	Alan B. Krueger †	5.07
5	Martin S. Feldstein †	5.15
6	Michael C. Jensen †	7.11
7	Edward C. Prescott †	8.94
8	Clive W. J. Granger †	11.25
9	Martin Ravallion †	11.36
10	Zvi Griliches †	12
11	Daniel Kahneman †	12.23
12	Jacob A. Mincer †	15.79
13	Halbert White †	16.13
14	Paul A. Samuelson †	16.49
15	Michael McAleer †	16.87
16	Jean-Jacques Laffont †	17.24
17	Martin L. Weitzman †	17.89
18	Edward Lazear †	18.15
19	Anthony Barnes Atkinson †	19.64
20	Robert M. Solow †	19.82
21	Emmanuel Farhi †	21.84
22	Rudiger Dornbusch †	22.22
23	Mike Wright †	22.54
24	Sherwin Rosen †	23.31
25	Kenneth J. Arrow †	23.68
26	Julio J. Rotemberg †	24.17
27	Gary Charness †	24.21
28	Stephen A. Ross †	25.3
29	Bennett T. McCallum †	25.41
30	William J. Baumol †	25.57
31	Dale W. Jorgenson †	26.37
32	Jonathan Eaton †	26.54
33	Milton Friedman †	26.76
34	Richard R. Nelson †	28.28
35	Martin Shubik †	36.61
36	Mike Tsionas †	38.89
37	Dale T. Mortensen †	40.28
38	James Tobin †	40.86
39	Allan H. Meltzer †	42.79
40	Douglass C. North †	43
41	George J. Stigler †	43.27
42	J. Peter Neary †	43.88
43	Bruce D. Smith †	44.7
44	Oliver E. Williamson †	45.71
45	David Schmeidler †	46.38
46	Edward E. Leamer †	47.74
47	Clement Allan Tisdell †	48.07
48	Gert G. Wagner †	54.38
49	Alex Cukierman †	54.88
50	Gary Chamberlain †	56.36
51	Philippe Martin †	56.42
52	John M. Quigley †	59.04
53	Stephan Klasen †	59.95

Top 6%

In alphabetical order
S. Rao Aiyagari †, Richard J. Arnott †, David Backus †, David Dollar †, Stephen Knack †, Assar Lindbeck †, Ngo Van Long †, Merton H. Miller †, James A. Mirrlees †, Wallace E. Oates †, James P. Smith †,

Top 7%

In alphabetical order
Ansgar Belke †, Nicholas Crafts †, Paul A. David †, Richard A. Easterlin †, Jack Hirshleifer †, John McMillan †, Franco Modigliani †, Elinor Ostrom †, Piet Rietveld †, T. N. Srinivasan †,

Top 8%

In alphabetical order
James M. Buchanan †, Ronald H. Coase †, Thomas F. Cooley †, Harold Demsetz †, John Enrico DiNardo †, Jacques H. Dreze †, Steven Klepper †, Robert E. Lipsey †, Ronald I. McKinnon †, Herbert A. Simon †, Finis R. Welch †,

Top 9%

In alphabetical order
Patrick L. Bajari †, Rebecca M. Blank †, Peter F. Christoffersen †, Marvin Goodfriend †, Herschel I. Grossman †, Robert John LaLonde †, Loet Leydesdorff †, Harry M. Markowitz †, John Morgan †, Agnar Sandmo †, Shlomo Yitzhaki †,

Top 10%

In alphabetical order
Victor R. Fuchs †, Andrew J Hughes Hallett †, Ronald W. Jones †, Edward J. Kane †, Michael Louis Mussa †, Roy Radner †, Anna Jacobson Schwartz †, Alan C. Stockman †, Hans R. Stoll †, Adam Wagstaff †,

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Credits:

• Citations from CitEc project by José Manuel Barrueco Cruz, University of Valencia, Spain. Hardware provided by Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE), Valencia, Spain.
• Abstract views and downloads statistics from LogEc project by Sune Karlsson, Örebro University, Sweden.
• Author registration, institution database, and ranking computations by Christian Zimmermann.
• RePEc has been initiated by Thomas Krichel.